Thursday, September 22, 2005

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Franz Kafka wrote in "Dearest Father":
DEAREST FATHER,
You asked me recently why I maintain that I am afraid of you. As usual, I was unable to think of any answer to your question, partly for the very reason that I am afraid of you, and partly because an explanation of the grounds for this fear would mean going into far more details than I could even approximately keep in mind while talking. And if I now try to give you an answer in writing, it will still be very incomplete, because, even in writing, this fear and its consequences hamper me in relation to you and because the magnitude of the subject goes far beyond the scope of my memory and power of reasoning.
Many believe that Kafka was writing a letter to his biological father. I maintain he was in fact, writing a letter to God, the Father. Think about that for a moment...
iK.

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